It Happened to Me

Terminated, Part 2: How I’ll Ride Out the Layoff and the Credit Crunch: Friends

[This article was also published in Global Nerdy.] Technology, media and pop culture writer Douglas Rushkoff, who's got a guest…

18 years ago

2 Million Pageviews!

Yearly statistics for the Accordion Guy blog, courtesy of StatCounter. StatCounter says that sometime within the half-hour before I wrote…

18 years ago

The Fortune Cookie Wasn’t Kidding

I found this while cleaning out receipts from my wallet. It's from my last fortune cookie:

18 years ago

Terminated, Part 1: The Very First Things You Should Do When Laid Off

[This article also appears in my tech blog, Global Nerdy.] Introduction Hello. My name is Joey deVilla, and I am…

18 years ago

Accordion News for July 27th, 2008

Accordion Death Squad Brian Jepson forwarded me an email with the preface "Couldn't let this sit in my inbox without…

18 years ago

I Have an Advance Copy of Neal Stephenson’s “Anathem”!

Neal Stephenson's Anathem A large, thick bubble-wrap-padded envelope arrived for me at the b5media office. As you can see in…

18 years ago

The Aftermath of Last Night’s Storm

Last night's storm, in which the sky turned a greenish colour, was a pretty impressive if brief one. The wall…

18 years ago

My First Brush with the Music Industry

This article also appears in Global Nerdy. Clay Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus If you're a reader of the…

18 years ago

The Honour System at High Park Station

To the north of High Park station, it's practically all houses, apartments and condos, while to the south, there's its…

18 years ago

Nine Years as “The Accordion Guy”

Here's a blast from the past: me with purple hair, rockin' out at Queen's Park on Saturday May 1st, 1999:…

18 years ago